This Day In Music

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July 12

1962, Ray Charles was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Don Gibson-penned country ballad 'I Can't Stop Loving You'.

1962, The Rolling Stones made their live debut at the Marquee Jazz Club, London, with Dick Taylor on bass (later of The Pretty Things) and Mick Avory on drums, (later of The Kinks). Billed as The Rollin’ Stones, they were paid £20 for the gig.

1969, One Hit Wonders Zager and Evans started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'In The Year 2525, (Exordium And Terminus)'.



The song was also No.1 in the UK, making them the only one hit wonders ever in both the US and UK singles charts.

1980, Olivia Newton-John



and the Electric Light Orchestra had the UK No.1 single with 'Xanadu', taken from the film of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third UK No.1 single.

1986, Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with 'Holding Back The Years'. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father's house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later.

1988, Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever-solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights to 794,000 people.

2000, A statue erected in the memory of John Lennon was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square.



The sculpture featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward.

2008, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood left his wife of 23 years and moved in with an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. [She got Wood!] The 61 year-old dad-of-four had met the teenager while out drinking and had taken her away to his luxury pad in Ireland.



1675 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, 1934 – Van Cliburn, 1942 – Steve Young, 1943 – Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac), 1945 – Butch Hancock (The Flatlanders), 1947 – Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood), 1948 – Walter Egan (sang "Magnet & Steel"), 1949 – John Wetton(Asia, King Crimson), 1950 – Eric Carr(KISS), 1952 – Philip Taylor Kramer(Iron Butterfly), 1954 – Eric Adams (Manowar), 1956 – Sandi Patty, 1965 – Robin Wilson (The Gin Blossoms), 1966 – Taiji(Loudness), 1967 – John Petrucci(Dream Theater), 1984 – Gareth Gates



1742 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, 1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, 1973 – Lon Chaney, Jr. (mentioned in "Werewolves Of London"), 1979 – Minnie Riperton, 1983 – Chris Wood (Traffic), 1998 – Jimmy Driftwood, 2003 – Benny Carter, 2013 – Amar Bose (founded the Bose Corporation)